Example sentences of "i had [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought within myself , ‘ With what eyes these poets see nature ! ’ and ever after , when I saw the sun-set stream upon the objects facing it , conceived I had made a discovery , or thanked Mr Wordsworth for having made one for me ! |
| 2 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 3 | But I had made a mistake and not put the fellow 's name and address in my book . |
| 4 | ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving . |
| 5 | ‘ The full weight of the Children 's Department came down on us for that scene and , in retrospect , I realised I had made a mistake letting that go through . |
| 6 | I realized I had made a mistake . |
| 7 | I realized that I had made a mistake : the no boundary condition implied that disorder would in fact continue to increase during the contraction . |
| 8 | I had made a flask of tea and some sandwiches but had run out of milk at home , so I brought a stoppered bottle along planning to buy some milk in Keld . |
| 9 | And I followed this with a suitably modest smile to indicate without ambiguity that I had made a witticism , since I did not wish Mr Farraday to restrain any spontaneous mirth he felt out of a misplaced respectfulness . |
| 10 | Prior to writing the script , I had made a list of the cast , designated local actors for the various roles and had them called for the 2pm ‘ woodshed ’ run-through . |
| 11 | Not surprisingly I have never heard from any of them since , although I felt that I had made a number of new and lasting Russian friendships that night . |
| 12 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 13 | ‘ I had to do a scene with an actor playing Big Ears and was thrilled when I was told I 'd got the part , ’ she said . |
| 14 | Girl 's do n't ‘ do ’ the season any more ; it 's not like it was in the past , ’ said Sophia Burrell , 17 , who confessed to having missed most of the grooming session laid on by Lucie Clayton School of Modelling , ‘ because I had to do a law course ’ . |
| 15 | I had to do a lot of talking to get out of that one , Folly . |
| 16 | ‘ There were a lot of traumatic phone calls between the two of us and I had to do a lot of soul-searching . |
| 17 | Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back . |
| 18 | ‘ I had to sacrifice a lot of things in that movie . |
| 19 | I was right on both counts , but it did not really sink in for some time that I had joined a charity . |
| 20 | I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing . |
| 21 | I had moved a table into a big window , for I foresaw that we should need all the help we could get from the view . |
| 22 | After all , I had imagined a future in Kumla security prison . |
| 23 | ‘ Three of us carried you , and I was one of the three , and I had to tip a jug of water over you next morning to wake you . ’ |
| 24 | IF I HAD to design a retreat for winter-weary travellers who want familiar hotels but in a different civilisation , I 'd invent Marrakech . |
| 25 | So I mean again I realized I had dug a hole for myself with the compressed funding but at the same time I was saying to myself oh yeah there is carry forward here er |
| 26 | Before it happened I had reached a point where at last I was earning enough money to make things a little bit easier , and then suddenly I found myself having to start all over again with wrecked finances , a new relationship and living in digs . |
| 27 | Now that I had reached a town , there was an elaborate routine to undergo . |
| 28 | As a magistrate on the Nottingham bench , I had visited a number of English prisons and young offenders ' institutions during the weeks immediately before my visit to Mexico . |
| 29 | Once I had desired a world made good and right and pure , as I conceived , by a Liberal statesman benevolent and omnipotent . |
| 30 | I had manufactured a woman called Elsie . |